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Sun Peaks, British Columbia

19 answers · 100 facts matched to official text · sources read 2026-11-08

Sun Peaks is a mountain resort municipality in the Shuswap Highlands, a short drive from Kamloops, with a ski-in ski-out village and a permanent population of about 1,400 plus many visitors each winter. Sun Peaks Mountain Resort Municipality handles planning (by contract), building permits and inspections, business licences, bylaw enforcement, roads, its own water and sewer utilities, and Sun Peaks Fire Rescue. The Thompson-Nicola Regional District operates the Sun Peaks Transfer Station for garbage and recycling. Gas (propane) comes from Resort Gas Ltd., managed under contract by the Municipality's utilities staff. The official pages read do not name a police detachment. Many things people think of as "municipal" matters, like marriage licences, health cards and driver's licences, are provincial.

Sun Peaks Mountain Resort Municipality boundary, 41.07 km². Source: Municipalities - Legally Defined Administrative Areas of BC, BC Data Catalogue, accessed 2026-11-08. Zoning map and 24 zones →

Building, renovating and your property

6

Water, sewer, roads and snow

1

Pets, animals and wildlife

3

Parking, tickets and driving

1

Bylaws, noise and complaints

5

Starting and running a business

2

Housing and renting

1
For AI agents. Every answer is available as Markdown at the same address with .md appended (or send Accept: text/markdown), and as JSON with .json. All answers for Sun Peaks in one file: index.json. Question list for this place: llms.txt. Full text of every answer here: llms-full.txt. Zones: zoning/index.json; zone of an address: /ca/bc/sun-peaks/zoning/lookup?address=. Official boundary as GeoJSON: boundary.geojson. All places: /llms.txt.